Photos for October 2, 2004

Dottie Miller, left, pair up with Elwyn Welch for a dance at the
Douglas County Senior Center, 745 Vt. Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging,
which channels state and federal funds to the center, is the
subject of a controversy involving a former board member's
criticism of the executive director. Miller and Welch danced
Wednesday at the center.

Lawrence High running back Jeff Colter (14) pumps his fists on the
sideline with teammates after the Lions' defense stopped a Shawnee
Mission South drive. Colter rushed for 238 yards Friday in the
Lions' 42-21 victory at SM South District Stadium.

A column of steam and ash starts to rise from the crater of Mount
St. Helens in Mount St. Helens, Wash., at the start of a predicted
eruption. The plume rose for 20 minutes before blowing away in the
wind.

A woman holds a poster of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as
she goes to attend afternoon prayers in Sadr City, in Baghdad,
Iraq. Scores of militants, including supporters of al-Sadr, were
killed Friday in U.S. airstrikes in the slums of Sadr City, the
U.S. military reported.

Children look at a crater in Baghdad, Iraq, that was caused by one
of the several car bombs that exploded at al-Amel neighborhood. A
string of bombs killed 35 children and wounded scores of others as
U.S. troops handed out candy Thursday. On Friday, U.S. troops took
control of Samarra and claimed they killed more than 100 insurgents
and captured 37 in the fighting.

Iraqi mourners carry the casket in a funeral procession for
resident Ahmed Chasib in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraq.
Chasib was killed Friday in an overnight airstrike by U.S. forces,
according to local witnesses.

Israeli army armored units prepare to go into Gaza, at a staging
area along the northern border with Gaza Strip, near Kibbutz
Mefalsim. Armored vehicles massed on Gaza's border Friday after
Israel's security cabinet approved a large-scale military operation
in Gaza code-named "Days of Penitence." The death toll was 39
Palestinians and five Israelis in two days, in some of the fiercest
fighting in many months of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Amanda Tate, St. Louis senior, completes a story for the evening
news broadcast on KUJH-TV. Tate worked in the new Stan and Madeline
Stauffer Multimedia Newsroom that was dedicated Friday at Kansas
University. The newsroom is designed to give KU students real-world
experience by bringing print, broadcast and online news staffs
together.

Television cameras from local affiliates and student-run KUJH-TV at
Kansas University train their cameras on Stan and Madeline
Stauffer, center, during a dedication of the Stan and Madeline
Stauffer Multimedia Newsroom. Joining the Stauffers at the event
Friday were, left, Rick Musser, professor and manager of the
newsroom, and interim journalism dean Ann Brill.

Richard Avedon is photographed in front of his self-portraits, part
of the exhibit "Richard Avedon: Portraits," in 2002 at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Avedon, a photographer who
rose to fame shooting sensual fashion subjects and captured
striking portraits of celebrities, died Friday at age 81.

Pinnacle Technology chemist Daniel Aillon holds a sensor produced
by the company. He was working Friday at the company's Lawrence
headquarters, 619 E. Eighth St. Pinnacle received a 100,000 grant
from the National Institute of Health to produce even smaller
sensors of this type.

Benny Smith, Lawrence, gives a dedication of Sesquicentennial Point
and a time capsule during the closing ceremony of Lawrence's
sesquicentennial celebration. At right is Larry McElwain, of
Warren-McElwain Mortuary, which donated the vacuum-sealed vault.

Jean Dirks, Lawrence, and a member of the Unitarian Fellowship,
displays the children's coloring book and a booklet of church
service programs from the past year. She put them in the
Sesquicentennial Time Capsule that was buried Sept. 19 at
Sesquicentennial Point near Clinton Lake dam.

From left, Michele Schneck, Lawrence, and her son Eli, 7, and
daughter Karey, 8, fill out postcards to include in the
Sesquicentennial Time Capsule. The capsule was buried Sept. 19 at
Sesquicentennial Point near Clinton Lake Dam during the closing
ceremony of Lawrence's birthday celebration.

Clenece Hills, center, president of the Lawrence Sesquicentennial
Commission, introduces descendants of Amos Lawrence, for whom the
city is named, during a closing ceremony of the Lawrence
sesquicentennial celebration. From left are Charles Derby and his
21-month-old daughter Lillian, Lawrence, Elizabeth Hedenberg,
Pensacola, Fla., and her cousin Brenda Muntz, Olathe. The ceremony
was Sept. 19 at Sesquicentennial Point at Clinton Lake.

Sarah Graham of the Monterey Bay Whale Watch surveys the fluke of a beached female blue whale Friday at Del Monte Beach in Monterey, Calif. The whale was less than year old and still had its tongue. A missing tongue is a sign of an attack from a killer whale.

Photo by David Royal/Monterey County Herald

Alexandra Mason, left, the first Spencer research librarian, joins Raphael Rubinstein, New York, the son of Joseph Rubinstein, the first head of special collections at Kansas University in 1953, in reviewing some of his father's early acquisitions for the collection. Rubinstein was at KU's Spencer Research Library on Friday.

Photo by Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo

The morning sun breaks through clouds and shines down on a farm near Lone Star. Friday's cold front brought a burst of autumn to the area, and temperatures are expected to be mild this weekend.

Photo by Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

A whitetail doe and several wild turkeys feed in a cut cornfield south of Manhattan. The wildlife had no reason to fear hunters Friday when this picture was taken. But the fall wild turkey and archery deer hunting seasons open today in Kansas.

Photo by David Mayes/Manhattan Mercury Photo

Gene Burnett, 84, rural Lawrence, returns from his flight over his land north of Lawrence. Burnett has more than 55 years of flying experience and more than 6,000 flight hours. His passenger Nelson Krueger, Lawrence, shot and submitted the picture.